Sex, authority, and psychoanalysis take center stage on Thursday, Oct. 16, in Todd Theatre as the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½\u2019s International Theatre Program begins its 25th<\/sup> season with the provocative farce, What the Butler Saw<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe play is funny but also profound in how it shifts roles and blurs the boundaries of our over-analyzed, psychiatrically dissected sexual and gender politics,\u201d said Nigel Maister, the Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director of the International Theatre Program. \u201cThis work was the first to fuse extreme physical comedy with verbal wit in a way that had not yet been seen in comedy.\u201d It was completed less than a month before playwright Joe Orton\u2019s death and is considered by many critics his finest work.<\/p>\n In the comedy, a successful psychiatrist attempts to seduce a prospective secretary. Hilarity then ensues when his wife interrupts his advances and his life unravels quickly. It soon becomes clear that both husband and wife have unsavory secrets to hide as things continue to unfold when the police and a government inspector enter the couple\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n